As the ten-year-old is seen for the first time, a karting competition that will include Vladimir Putin’s grandson has been relocated from Crimea due to concerns that he would be assassinated.
The Crimean peninsula, which is seized by Russia, came under assault for the first time last month after the Russian president’s decision to send soldiers into Ukraine in February.
A significant attack on the Saki military airport forced the relocation of Roman Faassen, Putin’s half-Dutch grandson, from the vacation destination Yevpatoria to distant Chechnya.
The ten-year-old child is competing in the Russian Karting Championships’ micro class, where he is presently ranked 28th.
Maria Vorontsova, Putin’s 37-year-old oldest child from her previous marriage to Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, the son of a NATO colonel, is the mother of Faassen.
On his belt, Roman wears the tricolours of both Russia and the Netherlands.
Only the name of Russia is visible on his kart.
An immediate decision was made to shift the race to a more secure area after the explosions on August 9 that were reportedly the work of Ukrainian special services.
The new date for the event is September 9.
According to Current Time, Roman, who is competing on behalf of Moscow, has already competed five times this season in the Chechen capital Grozny, Zelenograd, twice in Ryazan, and also in the settlement of Bogatye Saby close to Kazan.
The distance from Yevpatoria to the bombed Saki military airstrip is around 13 kilometres.
Since it was captured by Moscow in 2014, the Crimean peninsular has been a favourite vacation spot for Russians before the conflict in Ukraine started.
Numerous people believed that it was too distant from the Ukrainian mainland to be attacked. Multiple attacks on the island in August, however, destroyed military sites, demonstrating that this was not the case.
Although Ukraine did not claim credit for the assaults, the explosions indicate Kyiv has developed long-range missile capabilities that were previously unattainable.
Putin declines to discuss his relatives but acknowledged the following in 2017: “I have grandkids.” They have typical lifestyles. I want them to develop into typical adults.
“They would be recognised and never left alone if I give their ages and names.”
The 37-year-old paediatric endocrinologist Vorontsova is the child of former Russian first lady Lyudmila Putin and her ex-husband Vladimir Vorontsova.
She is now seeing 34-year-old Yevgeny Nagorny after being sanctioned by Western nations due to the conflict in Ukraine.
Photos from 2019 show Maria and Nagorny planning to attend a wedding of medical friends in Salerno, Italy.
She is a specialist in uncommon genetic illnesses that affect children and was born while the Russian president was a KGB agent.
She is an accomplished researcher at the Russian Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology. She also knows a lot about dwarfism.
The father of Roman has a lengthy history of employment with Gazprombank-Invest and Stroytransgaz in Russia.
Katerina Tikhonova, Maria’s divorced sister, is the deputy director of Moscow State University’s Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems. She is 35 years old.
Tikhonova, a former high-kicking “rock’n’roll” dancer, wed 40-year-old millionaire Kirill Shamalov, a close Putin ally and Russia’s youngest billionaire.
But when the marriage broke down, Katerina began dating ballet dancer Igor Zelensky, who is not related to the president of Ukraine.
Putin also has a second child, Luiza Rozova, a 19-year-old heiress also known as Elizaveta Krivonogikh, from a prior union with Svetlana Krivonogikh, 47, a former cleaner who is now a multimillionaire and a co-owner of a significant Russian bank.
Putin, 69, was reportedly informed by a BBC Russia correspondent that Maria and Katerina were his daughters, but he chose not to confirm this information.
Official denials of the rumours that he is married to rhythmic gymnast turned media tycoon Alina Kabaeva, 39, haven’t stopped them from spreading.
I have a private life, which I do not let intrusion with, Putin has previously said. It must be honoured. He hated “those who prowl into others’ life with their snotty noses and lustful fancies.”
Known to have found a guy she ‘loves very much,’ Kabaeva gushed, “Sometimes you feel so pleased that you even feel terrified.”